Ukrainian Air War-Imployment: An Air-Assault on Ukraine and a New Round of Correlations with Russia

Russia also carried out attacks — launching more than 470 drones and several missiles at targets across Ukraine, in what Ukrainian authorities said was the largest single-day air assault since the war began.

The official said the attack took 1 1/2 years to execute and that it was supervised by the president of Ukranian.

On the same day, Zelenskyy said Ukraine would send a delegation to Istanbul for a new round of peace talks with Russia.

Zelenskyy said Defense Minister Rustem Umerov will lead the Ukrainian delegation. “We are doing everything to protect our independence, our state and our people,” Zelenskyy said.

The Ukrainian officials had called on the Kremlin to give a Memorandum setting out its position before the meeting. Moscow had promised that it would give its ideas during the talks.

The strike occurred at 12:50 p.m., and no formations or mass gatherings of personnel were being held at the time. An investigative commission was created to uncover the circumstances around the attack that led to such a loss in personnel, the statement said.

“Russian Pearl Harbor”: Attacks on Russian Military Forces in Pokrovsk, Toretsk and Lyman

Russian spy and strike drones can be found to the rear of the active front line.

Ukraine’s forces suffer from manpower shortages and take extra precautions to avoid mass gatherings as the skies across the front line are saturated with Russian drones looking for targets.

The Ukrainian Ground forces said that officials who are found to be responsible for the death or injury of servicemen will be held accountable.

Russia’s Ministry of Defense stated on Sunday that it had taken control of the village. Russian forces made some gains in the area, so Ukrainian authorities ordered mandatory evacuates in 11 settlements Saturday.

Russia was focusing their main offensive efforts on Pokrovsk, Toretsk, and Lyman in the eastern part of the country, said Oleksandr Syrskyi,Ukraine’s top army chief.

The ministry also said its forces had thwarted additional attacks on three other bases and made several arrests — without providing details. It added no one had been injured in the attacks.

Russia’s Defense Ministry later confirmed the attacks on the military bases but played down their impact — claiming “only several pieces of aviation technology caught fire.”

“Our people operated in different Russian regions in three time zones,” he said. On the eve of the operation our people were taken out of Russian territory. Those who helped us are safe.”

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said in his video address on Sunday that the operation using 116 drones was planned for more than a year under the noses of Russia’s security service.

One video posted online showed drones taking off from a truck bed, as the Russian narrator yelled obscenities. Another shows a Russian serviceman swearing into the camera as planes burn behind him. The attack as a ” Russian Pearl Harbor” was referred to by a pro-Kremlin militaryblogger.

Moscow’s Response to the Kursk “Terrorist Attack” in the First Ukrainian-Armed Peace Talk since the Fall of the Soviet Union

Meanwhile, Russian railway authorities say a separate rail bridge collapsed in the neighboring Kursk region hours later — derailing a freight train and injuring several crew members.

Russia’s Investigate Committee said it had launched a criminal probe into both incidents on terrorism grounds — but pulled back on initial claims the bridges had both collapsed due to planted explosives.

“Our answer will be a buffer zone so large that it prevents the penetration of terrorists onto our territory in the future,” wrote Andrei Klishas, a senior member of Russia’s upper house Federation Council.

While Ukrainian authorities did not comment on either train derailment, Ukraine’s military intelligence did confirm a hit on a Russian military train moving supplies in an occupied part of the Ukrainian region of Zaporizhzhia.

There was a missile strike on a training unit in the army of Ukraine which killed a dozen people and injured more than 60. Zelenskyy said in his evening address that the training camp was in the central Dnipropetrovsk region, despite the fact that the military rarely confirms losses.

The commander of Ukraine’s armed forces, Major General Mykhailo Drapatyi, submitted his resignation after the attack “out of a personal sense of responsibility” for the casualties. He said an army where no one is held responsible for losses dies from within.

The Kremlin massed 50,000 troops at the border with northeastern Ukraine in the lead up to a possible offensive, even as they engaged in their first peace talks since the fall of the Soviet Union.

Writing on social media, Zelenskyy said his priorities for the talks include a full and unconditional ceasefire, the release of prisoners and the return of abducted children.

Even as Trump has threatened sanctions against Moscow over its perceived slow-walking of the negotiations, he and his administration have also made clear they believe Ukraine should accept it cannot beat its larger neighbor militarily and make concessions.

If Moscow was seen as driving the terms of negotiations, the Ukrainian drones operation might have undermined that dynamic for now.

A Moscow-based analyst wrote that the Ukrainian delegation was heading to Istanbul not feeling like it had lost the war.

He claimed that the strikes will continue as long as Russia threatens Ukrainians with missiles and Shaheds.

Malyuk said that the drones were hidden under the wooden cabins on trucks. These roofs were opened remotely, and the drones flew out to hit the Russian bombers, he said.

After three years of Russia’s full scale invasion ofUkraine, this carefully planned attack, intended to hit bomber that launch missiles on Ukrainian cities, was celebrated by Ukrainians.